1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,040 The series is over and the celebrities have all gone 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,480 home to celebrity land, so let's sit back and enjoy some highlights 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,120 from the first half of the current series. 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:10,640 Would you like to say the words? 5 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,640 Let's start the show! Oh, perfect, who needs celebrities? 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:16,960 CHEERING 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,080 CHEERING 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,080 Oh, not a bad line-up, not a bad line-up. 9 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,800 Er, welcome, all. So lovely to see you all.Yeah. 10 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,000 Scrubbing up, very nice, nice. Scrubbed-up. Thanks for 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,960 having us. So, Taylor and Bono, have you worked together, no? 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,200 Not yet, we're going to talk about it later. OK! 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,840 But no, Bono, you did a very nice thing when Taylor got 14 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,400 to Ireland... I've been, I'm a Swiftie... 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,600 CHEERING 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,720 We're highly aerial birds, you know. 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,840 Over the years, we've bumped into each other... 18 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,520 He doesn't want to take credit for the fact that he's so nice 19 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,400 he sent me roses when I played in Dublin. Yep. 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,560 He doesn't take credit... Red roses, you know. 21 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,520 He's a truly great person... 22 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,240 {\an8}There you are... 23 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,560 Beautiful.And he's just that great and thoughtful, just the 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,200 best there is. I'd better have a drink. 25 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,600 Here's the thing - Bono and Taylor have not worked together, 26 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,800 but weirdly, Taylor and Eddie, you have worked together.We have! 27 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,320 Wow, yeah. It was a decade ago. I once died in his arms, 28 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,360 in a screen test for Les Mis. 29 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,640 I did not know this, I did not know this. 30 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,480 So, yeah, there's a lot that people don't know about this story. 31 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,160 Basically, I was auditioning for two roles in Les Mis, and I'd done a 32 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:58,800 Basically, I was auditioning for two roles in Les Mis, and I'd done a 33 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,200 few auditions and gone to New York and whatever, and I think it had 34 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,040 been established that I had more of a look of Cosette, 35 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,160 but I had the range vocally of Eponine, so it was 36 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,040 established that, like, I was there for a good time, 37 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:13,600 not a long time. 38 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:15,800 LAUGHTER 39 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,280 But they were like, you know, "Do you want to come to London 40 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,640 "for one last screen test? And you'll get to screen test 41 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,080 "with Eddie Redmayne." I'm, like, 42 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,600 "This seems like an experience I want to have in my life." 43 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,240 You're, like, one of my favourite actors, you're so 44 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,320 ridiculously talented. Oh. I was like, "So, yeah, 45 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,040 "I'll go to London..." 46 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,320 I get there and they're like, "OK, so we really want to 47 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,720 "make you look like Eponine, we're going to... 48 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,520 "You know, she wasn't, like, loaded, she had brown teeth, 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,320 "you know, she didn't have a lot of money, so..." A 19th-century 50 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,640 street urchin... Exactly. I'm trying to say it in a way that 51 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,120 makes sense... She didn't floss. Exactly... They were like, 52 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,960 "We're actually going to paint your teeth brown for this." 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,240 And I'm like, "So, you're going to do that after I meet 54 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,080 "Eddie Redmayne, right? That's not something you do before. 55 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,560 "I get to meet people, then you do the brown teeth." 56 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,760 They were like, "No, no, it's... 57 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,600 "Everybody's going to meet you with the brown teeth, we're going to do 58 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:15,000 "big circles under your eyes, like you're near death..." 59 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,440 I was like, "This has immediately become a nightmare for me." 60 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,280 And then so... You were so nice, but I think when I met you, 61 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,000 I was like... 62 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,920 SHE MUMBLES 63 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,040 What was hilarious was... is you walked in as a 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,880 19th-century French street urchin, and, and I was not expecting that. 65 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:35,320 Yeah. But my overwhelming memory of it, Taylor, was... 66 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,160 I'd just been to Pizza Express beforehand, and I'd had 67 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:40,280 I'd just been to Pizza Express beforehand, and I'd had 68 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,000 some garlic doughballs... 69 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,560 LAUGHTER 70 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,800 I thought we were going to be singing-off with each other, 71 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,320 but they had us... It was so weird, cos Taylor was dressed 72 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,280 fully as Eponine, and I was in my tracksuit... 73 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,400 And they had us on the floor, like, singing sweet nothings 74 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,520 into each other, and all I knew was I just had garlic breath. 75 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,640 LAUGHTER 76 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,840 Talking about Les Mis, Samantha Barks... Yeah. 77 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,200 ..one of my closest friends. Never go to a karaoke bar 78 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,360 with Samantha Barks... She's amazing... Yeah. 79 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,960 I was up singing Lady Marmalade, giving it all I've got, 80 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,160 and then she just gets up and then I was like, 81 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,360 "Oh, yeah, I remember, I can't actually sing...!" 82 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,360 But she is incredible. Samantha Barks, who was in Les Mis, 83 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,720 and is amazing, plays Elsa in Frozen, 84 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:23,840 and is amazing, plays Elsa in Frozen, 85 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,120 and I took my kids to go and see, and they got to meet Elsa 86 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,640 in Frozen and it was the best, like, sort of celeb name-drop 87 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,280 I've ever succeeded... Can't talk, can't talk about Frozen! Oh, no! 88 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,600 Yeah. What happened? 89 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,200 Came second in the Oscars to the song. 90 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,880 LAUGHTER 91 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,200 So sorry. My life is filled with Frozen fractals all around. 92 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:49,760 So sorry. My life is filled with Frozen fractals all around. 93 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,920 It's the best lyric, it's a great lyric, it was a great song. 94 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,960 Yeah. And you should listen to that, Bono, let it go!Yeah. 95 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,800 LAUGHTER 96 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,560 LAUGHTER DROWNS OUT SPEECH 97 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,920 And now, Kate, your underwater stuff. There's been a lot 98 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,560 in the press about you holding your breath, and you're very good at it. 99 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,520 Mm. Because Tom Cruise has been on this very sofa talking about his 100 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,960 holding breath...Oh, has he, now? Yes.OK, I'm curious about that. 101 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,800 Well, he held the record for celebrity breath-holding, 102 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:26,840 which is a very niche... Very niche thing. 103 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,560 He clocked in, 6 minutes 30. You thought I was going to say, 104 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,720 like, 45 seconds. 105 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,040 6 minutes, 30.Which is 6 minutes 29 seconds more than 106 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,480 Chris Moyles on I'm A Celebrity... 107 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,480 LAUGHTER 108 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,680 OK, so that's Tom. We're just going to see the end of Kate Winslet, 109 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:47,800 OK, so that's Tom. We're just going to see the end of Kate Winslet, 110 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:51,240 seeing how long. So she's been in the water, so you'll see 111 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,520 the back of her head, it's Kate's... There she is.Yeah. 112 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,480 So, how long has she managed? Roll it...Here we go. 113 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,000 Here we go... That's nice, here we go... 114 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,120 SHE GASPS 115 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,480 Am I dead, am I dead? 116 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,440 You are alive, you're very much alive. What was that? 117 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,200 What do you think it was? 118 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,320 I don't know, it could have been 6:10, it could have been 7:10. 119 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,720 It was 7:15. 120 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,520 ALL SCREAM 121 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:34,760 ALL WHOOP 122 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:39,280 Wow. 123 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:44,240 It's unbelie... What goes...? I mean, cos seven minutes is 124 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:49,280 so long. Were you thinking about... dinner tonight?Yes, I was. 125 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:50,040 so long. Were you thinking about... dinner tonight?Yes, I was. 126 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,160 OK, chop the onion, peel the garlic... 127 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,240 Count the slats on the floor below me. I mean, firstly, 128 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:01,880 I do have to just say this, it is a sport, it's not something 129 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,720 you can just try in the bath, and you should never, ever... 130 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,360 No, I really mean this, you should never do it by yourself, 131 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,200 because actually what happens when people don't know what they're 132 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,440 doing, is they come up and they... You saw I did a breathing 133 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,360 sequence... Yeah...the second I came up. And then I was talking 134 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,720 like a totally non-breathy person. So what happens is, people 135 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,720 come up and they go... LOUD GASP 136 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,960 ..and that's when people black out and run into trouble, 137 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,080 so it is not something you can just do, without knowing 138 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,360 what you're doing. So, the training I had was three weeks of 139 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,760 training every single day, and you learn how to, literally, change 140 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:31,840 training every single day, and you learn how to, literally, change 141 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,360 how you distribute the oxygen in your body, it's a very detailed, 142 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:40,000 quite extraordinary process and I loved it and got really, 143 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,160 really good at it, it turned out. 144 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,960 You know who's running a bath right now...? Tom Cruise! 145 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,320 LAUGHTER 146 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,280 Yeah. 147 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,160 He's got the timer on his iPhone, he's in there. 148 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,320 And it's a first-time welcome to Lydia... 149 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,600 APPLAUSE 150 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:00,920 APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH 151 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,280 We've got to go with the extraordinary success of 152 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,280 It's A Sin. Obviously, lots of fan reaction and people in love 153 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,160 with you on the street but then you got some very special 154 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,120 fan reaction.Yes, I did. So, my friend asked me if he could 155 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,080 give Elton my number... 156 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,880 "Elton." "Elton." 157 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,120 And I was like, "Elton who...? And he was like, "Elton John." 158 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,920 And I was like, "Ahh, OK!" And then within two minutes of sending 159 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,760 that text, Elton was calling me, and it was like 01 number... 160 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,280 I won't give his number... 161 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,600 LAUGHTER 162 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,800 I think you can give it to all of us! 163 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,600 Let's call him now! 164 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,080 And he called all of us, he called the whole cast, and he 165 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,560 called Russell. How lovely. I know, it was so sweet. 166 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,640 Thing is, once he called one of you, he had to then call everyone! 167 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:52,720 I was like, "Oh, my God, Elton John just called me..." 168 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:53,880 That's beautiful. 169 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:55,640 Isn't that a lovely thing to do? That's lovely. 170 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,520 Then everyone was like, "Yeah, we got the call too." 171 00:08:57,560 --> 00:08:59,280 And I was like, "Oh." That makes me very happy. Yeah. 172 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,240 But did he... He flew some of them to LA for the Oscars party, 173 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,080 didn't he?He did, yeah, so he flew some of them for the Oscars party 174 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,560 and he also invited us all round for a curry. 175 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,360 And I don't know if that's confidential information, but... 176 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,480 It doesn't sound confidential. 177 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,560 I didn't go because I was away, so it was all the boys, 178 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,400 but they had a curry and maybe an orgy. 179 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,120 I don't know. Can I just say? Wow. 180 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,520 That isn't where I thought that story was going. 181 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:31,840 My question - is "having a curry" a euphemism? 182 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:32,280 My question - is "having a curry" a euphemism? 183 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,760 Because if it is, I need to know what the euphemism is, 184 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,800 because I'm American and we just don't know 185 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,800 what "having a curry" means, but I'm kind of liking it. 186 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,400 LAUGHTER 187 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,160 Anyway, here you are, Lesley Manville, movie star now, 188 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,960 movie star, and yet, theatre, you love theatre. 189 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,480 I mean, years ago, I saw you in The Cherry Orchard 190 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,440 with Dame Judi Dench.Did you? 191 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,040 With Sam Mendes, the child Sam Mendes.Oh, look at me. 192 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,840 Oh, God, that's depressing! No! 193 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,880 Untouched by time. 194 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,960 And Dame Judi Dench, she has a reputation for being quite naughty. 195 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,560 Naughty?! That woman should be locked up. 196 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,160 LAUGHTER 197 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,360 I mean, she is... I mean, she is so naughty. 198 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,680 Do you want to know what she did to me one night? Yes, I do. 199 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,200 So, there's a moment in The Cherry Orchard 200 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,040 where my character was onstage, on their own, for a short time. 201 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,600 Judi Dench, she's in the wings trying to make me laugh, 202 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,880 trying to corpse me, which is... Yeah...trying to make me laugh. 203 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,640 And she is... 204 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:42,440 How can I put this? 205 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,720 ..she's pretending that she's being...pleasured 206 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,440 by somebody... 207 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:51,240 ..from behind. 208 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,720 LAUGHTER 209 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,000 So... Excellent. I'm sorry, Judi, if you're watching, 210 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:00,280 So... Excellent. I'm sorry, Judi, if you're watching, 211 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,800 but you shouldn't be so naughty! 212 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,560 So I'm onstage, and I can see all this, 213 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,960 and I'm desperately trying not to laugh, 214 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,800 and the important bit of information here is that I'd just had a baby, 215 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:12,960 and the important bit of information here is that I'd just had a baby, 216 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,080 so my pelvic floor wasn't quite what it should have been. 217 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,360 Now, I was wearing a long dress, but I... 218 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,560 Judi made me laugh so much that I wet myself. 219 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,560 And it gets worse, because the stage was raked, which means... 220 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,080 So I watched my piss... 221 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,040 ..trickle down. 222 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,040 APPLAUSE 223 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,120 Wow. 224 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,520 I don't think I was there that night, no. 225 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:49,600 Well, if you were in the front row, 226 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,360 you'd have seen it go over the edge. 227 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,240 That woman is so naughty. 228 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,960 I mean, you must have stories about her. 229 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,960 You worked with her...? I've worked with her a few times. 230 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,320 Oh, my God. We did a play at the National Theatre called 231 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,920 Entertaining Strangers, which was an ensemble, 232 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,720 I mean, a promenade production, 233 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,840 which meant the audience was in amongst the actors and vice versa. 234 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,080 And one evening, she was in the... 235 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,600 ..offstage, and she could see a mutual friend, Howard Davies, 236 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:17,840 ..offstage, and she could see a mutual friend, Howard Davies, 237 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,760 the director, sitting amongst the group of people on this stage, 238 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,480 so she thought, "Oh, I know," so she scribbled a note, 239 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,600 and then as she passed by to go and do this scene with 240 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,680 Tim Pigott-Smith, she scribbled down, "Fancy a shag?" 241 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,200 And as she walked past him, 242 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,640 she dropped it in his lap and carried on, did the scene, 243 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,720 and feeling very smug and pleased with herself, and at the end of 244 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,600 the scene, she sort of looked round 245 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:45,600 and realised it wasn't Howard Davies. 246 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,600 LAUGHTER 247 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,320 That is so good! 248 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,240 Here's the thing. The last time Stormzy was on the show, you did 249 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,520 an amazing performance, and after that, off he went to Glastonbury. 250 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:04,200 Yeah. You were the first grime artist to ever headline Glastonbury. 251 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,880 Yeah. And this look is now so iconic, 252 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,280 the Banksy bulletproof vest. 253 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,840 So did Banksy...? Like, how do you get 254 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:13,680 a Banksy bulletproof vest? 255 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,920 It's just kind of bestowed upon you. 256 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,520 LAUGHTER 257 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:21,920 I swear to you, that's... That's what it feels like. 258 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,720 It was like the third... 259 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,320 Have I told this story before? I'm going to tell it anyway. Yeah. 260 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,920 So my contact with Banksy was... 261 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,160 He is as elusive as you can imagine, like, as in... 262 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,840 Is your contact with Banksy, Banksy? 263 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,680 Not really, no, it's like... 264 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:45,800 No, it's not really. You get contacted through notes, like... 265 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:46,480 No, it's not really. You get contacted through notes, like... 266 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,400 It sounds... Yeah, yeah. 267 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,600 It's quite, like... Is it cloak and dagger? 268 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,280 Basically, like in a nutshell. 269 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,360 And then, yeah, it was mad. 270 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,520 Sometimes... Can I be real? 271 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,720 Talking about Banksy, I feel like... 272 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,680 Whenever people ask me, like, about the vest, I'm like, 273 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,720 "Who sent you here?" 274 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,240 Like, yeah, something, like... 275 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,600 I don't know, yeah, I might just - zip. 276 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,120 You know what I mean? 277 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,480 Do you go, "Dear Banksy, I need a large."No, no, no. 278 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:18,520 Anything Banksy does, that's one thing I can vouch for Banksy, 279 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:23,000 is that, yeah, he literally found me 280 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:23,240 is that, yeah, he literally found me 281 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,840 and said, "I've made something for you, like, 282 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,600 "if you want to wear it, like, if you don't..." 283 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,720 And I was like, "Yeah, I definitely want to wear it, please." Yeah. 284 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,520 Really, I was like, "Yeah, please." 285 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,560 And then, yeah, and then we'd done some fittings for it, and then, 286 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,960 yeah, it was just very, very, very...insane. 287 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,080 Did you actually meet him? I can't... I can't... 288 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,600 You can't say, can you? 289 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:48,360 He so did. 290 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,880 "Went for fittings," I mean... No, no, he weren't there. 291 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,600 That's going to be someone else. See? He was never... I swear to you. 292 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,480 Or she was never there. 293 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,240 ALL: Oh! 294 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,640 You know, like... 295 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,320 Daniel, did you ever want to do anything else, 296 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,640 or was it always just actor, actor, actor? 297 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,840 When I grew up, I mean, I wanted to be an actor, 298 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,040 but there weren't a lot of outlets for being an actor where I grew up, 299 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:21,440 so I was probably going to join the Navy at one point, and then 300 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:22,560 so I was probably going to join the Navy at one point, and then 301 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,760 I sort of got into waiting, and then I nearly took a job on the QE2. 302 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,440 I would still be there, probably. 303 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,680 Is it still floating, the QE2? I don't even know. 304 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,200 I don't know, one of them is.Yeah. But I was a waiter, yeah. 305 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,520 And from about 16, I waited. In posh restaurants or...? 306 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,440 I mean, they were kind of posh. 307 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,680 They were in Chester, which makes them kind of posh. Chester's posh. 308 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,720 Yeah, but there was always a fight. I don't know what it was. 309 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,400 There was always a time where you'd sort of like 310 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,120 go round the back and you could smoke back there, 311 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,160 and so you'd be having a quick fag round the back, 312 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,600 kind of like on your break, 313 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,040 and then you'd sort of hear this "Raar!". 314 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,040 And there'd be a chair thrown. 315 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,720 You'd be like, "What? Why? We're a silver service." 316 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,960 Fine dining in Chester. 317 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,280 Yeah. Live reporting from the dessert station. 318 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,840 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE 319 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,320 I saw it last night, it was just terrific. 320 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:25,160 For most of the film, your character refuses to feel pain. 321 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,400 Yeah, that's based on the real Agojie women as well. 322 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,480 They were literally were taught not to feel pain. 323 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,760 Which must be quite hard to pretend that I'm not going, "Ow, ow..." 324 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:36,480 Which must be quite hard to pretend that I'm not going, "Ow, ow..." 325 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,360 Look at that clip there, you see me standing on a rock. 326 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,760 There's about five rocks under my foot there...which is fantastic. 327 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,520 But did they give you a protective thing for the sole of your foot? 328 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:47,560 No. 329 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,120 LAUGHTER 330 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,560 No, we were just barefoot, just raw, the whole time. 331 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,040 Which was amazing because we were, you know, we were 3am, 332 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:57,760 Which was amazing because we were, you know, we were 3am, 333 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,720 doing stunts, in the dark, 334 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,520 taking down men, as you see, 335 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,800 and like I said, 100% standing the whole time. 336 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,360 Are you fighting with a sword? Yeah, with a machete in my hand. 337 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,920 So you've got the sword and you're throwing him? Yeah. Damn. 338 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:10,560 And then after I throw him... 339 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:15,600 After I throw him, I then have to take him down again. Yeah, yeah. 340 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,600 And because you'd done things like Captain Marvel and James Bond 341 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,000 and stuff, were you ahead of the game, 342 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,400 where you ahead of the class? 343 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:30,640 No. 344 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,720 I thought I would be, but I wasn't. Oh, really? 345 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,440 I wasn't ready, I'm not going to lie. 346 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,160 I thought that, having done a couple of stunts, 347 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,480 that I'd be able to just go in and springboard off experience 348 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,560 but, no, this was throwing men, this was machete work, 349 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,200 they were really heavy, this was discovering muscles 350 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,560 in your wrist that you didn't realise you had. Mm... 351 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,800 This was working on a Sunday... 352 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,480 LAUGHTER 353 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,480 Big Zuu laughed first! 354 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,440 LAUGHTER 355 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,440 He was waiting, like... 356 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,560 I saw your eyes! 357 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,600 I ain't saying nothing! LAUGHTER 358 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,080 Lay it out, I want to hear it. 359 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:14,040 It's just, you know, you were just, the right hand, innit? 360 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,720 Well, I learned about all that, so that's fab. 361 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,680 And, obviously on the show, there's children on the show 362 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,160 and there's lots of extras and background artists. 363 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,400 But there was one background artist who apparently was very 364 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,760 impressed to see you. Do you know who I'm talking about? 365 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,280 No. 366 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,040 Yes, you do!Is it... I mean... 367 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,680 There was one. She kept saying... She got confused. 368 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,480 She got confused. She thought I was someone else. 369 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,920 I thought she was being really nice, and she went to me, 370 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,000 you're doing really well for yourself, aren't ya? 371 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,080 I was like, "Ah, thank you, love." You know how extras can have conversations with you? 372 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:53,920 Sorry, supporting artists, can have conversations with you 373 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,760 and you're like, OK, you know, and they have really interesting 374 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,960 conversations sometimes. And she went, "You're doing really well for yourself." 375 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,640 "Thank you very much." And you're being polite, do you know what I mean? 376 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,200 And then I was like, yeah, yeah. 377 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,320 And she went, cos I never thought it'd happen for ya. 378 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,080 And I was like... 379 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,640 OK, OK. Where are we going now?! 380 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,040 And then she was like, well, you know, after Big Brother... 381 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,400 And I was like, "What the... 382 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,120 "Hang on. Sorry, love, what?" 383 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,840 And she went, "Well, you're Craig from Big Brother." 384 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,720 There you go, look. See. 385 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,320 APPLAUSE 386 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,640 I love that she thought that Craig from Big Brother was playing 387 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:39,200 the lead in...I know. It was just one of them things. But the crew... 388 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,040 Yes, yes, go on, Graham. You're going to show it, aren't you? 389 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,320 Yes, yes. The crew. What did the crew do? 390 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:46,000 The crew overheard this conversation. 391 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,840 Yes, they did overhear, yes. 392 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,680 And Aaron, our wonderful DOP, decided it'd be great 393 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,240 for on my final day, when I had a big heavy scene with me wife 394 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,760 and kids, that the crew would all have these T-shirts on. 395 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,560 And he goes, action... 396 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,920 LAUGHTER 397 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,560 There's Aaron, the big lad there. 398 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:06,960 APPLAUSE 399 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,840 And Pete and all the boys, yeah. 400 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,560 So, you're filming a murder mystery in Greece, 401 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,120 but then you must have been having a good time, because apparently 402 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,120 when you stopped filming, you would then go home... 403 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,760 Keep playing murder mysteries. You are playing murder mysteries. 404 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,920 Well, first of all, I feel like Covid 405 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,480 and the fact that we had to shoot it 406 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,440 and be very careful sort of forced us all, 407 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,520 whether we liked it or not, which, thank God, we loved it, 408 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,760 to play together. And what do you play when you're doing, you know, 409 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,440 a part of the Knives Out franchise? 410 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,960 You know, you're going to play a murder mystery. And so we played... 411 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,040 Do you know this game Mafia? Do you know Mafia? Anybody? 412 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,760 Oh, my God, I know it. They play Werewolf here. 413 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,680 Werewolf, yes. Werewolves and Villagers. 414 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,960 The town priest, that one. 415 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,680 Edward knows! Yeah, I love that game. 416 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,560 So basically, we'd be sitting here like we are, and one of us 417 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,920 would be Mafia, but convincing each other that someone else was... 418 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,320 You're not Mafia, you're a townsperson. Is this fun? 419 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:07,600 It's so fun. It doesn't sound fun. 420 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,320 It's so fun. It's so much fun. It's hilarious. 421 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,640 I've played it. Kate hosts these games at her house. 422 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,480 I've been lucky enough to be invited to play Mafia at Kate's house, 423 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,680 and it is so fun. 424 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,160 And actually, the last time we played it was a while ago now. 425 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,520 It was a while ago. But Ryder played, I remember. 426 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:26,960 Oh, my God. He was good. 427 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,200 He was really good, and I wanted to straight up murder that kid. 428 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,480 It was really hard to do, because nobody wants to kill the kid, 429 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,640 but I did. Yeah. I think I did. You killed Ryder, yeah. 430 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,640 So, does more than one person get killed?Oh, yeah. 431 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,200 The whole point of the game is to kill everybody. The whole village. 432 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,280 Oh!Yeah. That's sounding more fun. 433 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,960 LAUGHTER 434 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,200 And then you go to the bar. 435 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,520 So the thing is, you get killed and then you go to the bar 436 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,200 and you watch something really interesting. You watch who's lying. 437 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,840 Yes! And it definitely breaks up marriages. Like... 438 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:00,480 Yes! And it definitely breaks up marriages. Like... 439 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,040 My husband and I really don't like playing together. 440 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,160 It's like, wow, you are...you're terrible. 441 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,400 It's like one of those... You're a liar. 442 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,400 You have the late-night thing where it's like, 443 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,160 I can't believe you killed me like that. 444 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,320 And you were Mafia. Edward's nodding. 445 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:17,320 Mine would be dead. 446 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,240 Done, the first round. 447 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,800 And, Edward, you're nodding, but do you actually play this game? 448 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,200 I played it on a boat and one of the players was Oprah. 449 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,640 Yes! 450 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Can I just say... Wow! 451 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,280 APPLAUSE 452 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,920 Way to shit on them! 453 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,960 You win! You win! 454 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,480 And Oprah, you don't expect Oprah to lie. No!You don't expect... 455 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:45,360 And Oprah, you don't expect Oprah to lie. No!You don't expect... 456 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,240 She won. We'd all go round the table and just like literally try 457 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,960 to skip to the next person, but she was good. 458 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,520 How do you kill... You can't kill Oprah! 459 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,840 Even if you know she's Mafia, you're like... It's not possible. 460 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,320 ..we'll get her next round. She lived till the end. 461 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,960 I'm sure she... I bet she did. And beyond. 462 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,440 Oprah!That's so great. 463 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,800 That's the best name-drop we've ever had on the show. 464 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,600 On a boat with Oprah.Oh, yeah! 465 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,120 LAUGHTER 466 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,040 APPLAUSE 467 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,800 Geena, Geena, lovely name, but you spell it differently, with two Es. 468 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,680 Yes. Why is that? 469 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,760 Well, I was named Virginia, after my aunt, and her nickname was Ginny. 470 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,560 So, my parents thought that we have to come up with a different, 471 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,760 you know, a different nickname, and hit upon Geena. 472 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,280 And then when I started acting and I was in articles or whatever, 473 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,720 my mum said, people seem to love the way you spell your name. 474 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,400 And I said, yeah, yeah. I always say you didn't know how to spell "Gina". 475 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,560 She said, "Oh, no, I knew how to spell it. 476 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,240 "I grew up in an Italian neighbourhood. 477 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,200 "I knew absolutely how to spell it. 478 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,520 "Why did you spell it with two Es, then?" 479 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,920 She says, "Well, I didn't want anyone to think your name was GI-na." 480 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:00,880 She says, "Well, I didn't want anyone to think your name was GI-na." 481 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,640 LAUGHTER 482 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,120 Just so we're clear, 483 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,920 my entire identity is based on fear of vaginas. 484 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,000 I know how you feel. Um... 485 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,520 That was good. 486 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,320 No, no. 487 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:27,520 And, now, I'm losing my mind. Have I seen you play a vicar before? 488 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:28,120 And, now, I'm losing my mind. Have I seen you play a vicar before? 489 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,480 Um, I think I played a vicar in a... 490 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,680 Like in an Anthony Trollope, you know, 491 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,360 sort of old-fashioned vicar ones. You look so right in it. 492 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,680 Well, it is good. It's a good fit. 493 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,520 Well, my dad was a minister in the Church of Scotland. 494 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,920 He wasn't just a minister. He wasn't just a minister. 495 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,800 He WAS the Church of Scotland. 496 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,840 No, he was the Moderator of the Church of Scotland for a time 497 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,240 as well, yeah. He was pretty high up. 498 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,480 And now is it true the thing that you and your father into adulthood 499 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,200 NEVER swore in front of each other? No! Never! 500 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,880 I never swore in front of him, and I never, NEVER heard him... 501 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,600 He was a man of the cloth! He was a clergyman, for goodness' sake. 502 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,280 Except... LAUGHTER 503 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,480 I never heard him swear. 504 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,280 And I suppose he heard me swear in things, you know, 505 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,040 but that was always "the script", so that was fine. 506 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,720 But I would never swear in front of my dad, never. 507 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,040 And I-I don't think a swear word ever passed his lips... 508 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,160 until he came down to stay with me in London once 509 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,640 to go and see Billy Connolly. Billy Connolly was... 510 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,200 We grew up loving Billy Connolly, and we'd have the cassettes 511 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,800 of Billy Connolly in the car, and my dad was a big Billy Connolly fan. 512 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,680 So, he came down to London to see Billy Connolly, 513 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,760 and then he came back and started doing bits of the act. 514 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,440 And it was all very, oh, that's very funny. 515 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,520 But then, I guess because it was "the script", 516 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,400 suddenly he's standing in my living room at midnight going, 517 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,200 BLEEP! 518 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,880 SHE COUGHS 519 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,680 APPLAUSE 520 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:16,400 Wow! This is the Moderator of the Church of Scotland! 521 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,800 I'm thinking, he could be excommunicated! 522 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,960 But because it was Billy it was allowed. Billy's a special case. 523 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,720 Yes, of course.Yeah. 524 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,720 Oh...my Go... 525 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,320 First of all, on American... ..you've got one shoe on! 526 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,880 Well, it's purchase. 527 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,880 I'm on a couch, you know how you have to get purchase sometimes? 528 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,240 Anyway, on American television... 529 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,120 WHISPERS: ..you can't say that word. 530 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,040 On British television you can't say that word. 531 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,200 Oh.. But he just did. 532 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,880 But we're not live. 533 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,240 AUDIENCE LAUGHS 534 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,720 I really hope I haven't given you ideas now. 535 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,520 Well... Oh, no, I've already like blown it, you know. 536 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,760 But I know you have a thing - 537 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,120 you don't like to eat out alone, still now. 538 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,880 Mm, I don't mind eating on my own. 539 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,160 The problem is, as a stand-up when you're on the road, 540 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,080 you're often forced to eat on your own. 541 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,120 But what I like when you're eating on your own is 542 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,800 this sort of degree of discretion because you don't want everyone 543 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,360 to know you're eating on your own. 544 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,280 And I had a situation where I was caught out 545 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,000 in America by a little Americanism that they like there. 546 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,920 I was dining on my own and I went to put my name down for a table 547 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,440 at this restaurant and the hostess came back out about five minutes 548 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,680 later and there were some other people waiting for tables as well. 549 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,440 And then at the top of her voice, she used my name 550 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,440 in the most depressing sentence I've ever heard it used, 551 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,560 because she walked out and she went, "Jack Whitehall... 552 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,680 "party for one." 553 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,920 Aww! No! AUDIENCE LAUGHS 554 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,120 Everyone is looking over to see who the pity party for one is. 555 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,520 I have to do a walk of shame through the restaurant... 556 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,320 Right to the back. Right to the back. 557 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:49,720 ..she sits me down at this table. 558 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,960 She then does that thing and I don't know why they do this 559 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,680 when you're eating on your own in a restaurant, 560 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,440 she makes a big song and dance of removing the plate setting 561 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,200 opposite... Yeah! As if to say, we don't want anyone looking over 562 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,640 and thinking that someone might be able to sit down opposite you. 563 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,200 That is so true, they do always do that.Why? Why do they do that? 564 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,400 Then she came back with a menu, by which point I was like, 565 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,960 this woman is taking the piss. 566 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,520 She puts the menu down in front of me, 567 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,760 she goes, "Well, you're not going to be interested in this first 568 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,240 "page because this is all of our sharing plates." 569 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,200 I get it, I haven't got any friends. 570 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,320 She goes, "Here we are, sir, this is more your area here. 571 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,040 "Wines by the glass." 572 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,920 I was like, "Oh, madam, how wrong you are. I'm British. 573 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,360 "I may eat for a party of one but I drink for a party of five!" 574 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,800 AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUDS 575 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,200 Erm... 576 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,800 Oh, my God! 577 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,360 Erm...Can I just say, what's worse - 578 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,360 I'm just going to completely, I'll come back to... 579 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,360 Yeah, yeah do, yeah. We'll come back to you. OK. 580 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,520 What's worse is when you're on a plane... Yeah? 581 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,560 ..and... You have to eat on your own then. 582 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,280 No, no, no, well... But you're on a plane and they say, 583 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,480 wait for it, "Muslim meal." 584 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,080 No! Muslim meal! I'm like, are you for real? 585 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,560 I'm on a plane! 586 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,680 Like, what?! 587 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,280 And you have everyone just go... 588 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,920 Travelling alone. I'm like, what?! 589 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,280 AUDIENCE LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS Come on! 590 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,400 Yeah, yeah, same thing. 591 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,240 That is worse.That is worse. That is worse. 592 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,480 That is worse.That is worse. I have never had that experience! 593 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,960 And George Takei, Star Trek legend but... 594 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,280 AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS Yes, but...Yes! 595 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,440 You can still do it. Live long and prosper. 596 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:26,880 Yes, you can still do it. 597 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,680 But the weird thing is you have a catchphrase and it's not that. 598 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,640 I mean your catchphrases isn't even from Star Trek? 599 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,840 No, it's from a shock jock 600 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,880 named Howard Stern. 601 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,640 Yeah. Yeah. 602 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,120 He's a dear friend and he's been a partner of ours, 603 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,400 my husband Brad, in talking up equality for LGBT people. 604 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,760 my husband Brad, in talking up equality for LGBT people. 605 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,720 AUDIENCE CHEERS And, uh... 606 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,960 But I had never met him. 607 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,920 When I was first invited to do his show, 608 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,680 I was doing a play in New York and when you're doing a play, 609 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,960 the publicist gives you your assignment. 610 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,320 Yeah.So I went to that address on Madison Avenue. 611 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,840 They asked me to wait on a couch sort of like this 612 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:12,920 They asked me to wait on a couch sort of like this 613 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,000 and they had the radio on and I was looking through magazines 614 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,080 and I thought... 615 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,320 that show that they have on is disgusting. 616 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,240 It's vile conversation. 617 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,360 So I said to the person sitting next to me waiting, I said, 618 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,080 "Why can't we have good music here? This is terrible" 619 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,840 And she said, "That's the show we're waiting to go on." 620 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,680 THEY LAUGH 621 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,680 And then right on cue, the receptionist came, 622 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,840 ushered me into the studio. 623 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,280 I walked in and there's this tall, wild haired, 624 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,680 horn rimmed glassed guy. 625 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,000 And I said, "Good morning". And he says, "You have a deep voice. 626 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,000 "A voice like that must have a big dong below." 627 00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,920 AUDIENCE LAUGHS 628 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,840 I asked, "Are we on the air?" 629 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,000 And he said, "Yep". 630 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,640 And I said... IN DEEP VOICE:Oh, my... 631 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:17,680 And he had it on tape and so whether I'm there on the show or not, 632 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:17,920 And he had it on tape and so whether I'm there on the show or not, 633 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,800 when someone said something or does something outrageous, 634 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,200 he presses a button and my voice comes on. 635 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,040 "Oh, my..." 636 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,360 AUDIENCE LAUGHS 637 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,440 It has become my signature. 638 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,040 Very good. And now where did the music come from? 639 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,480 Ooh... Um... Where did the music come from? 640 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,160 Well, my mum and dad actually met onstage doing Pirates of Penzance. 641 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,240 Hello!So... Wow! Yeah. 642 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,800 ..probably there, but my mum's not a great singer. 643 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,040 My dad... My mum was one of the maids 644 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,640 and my dad was the pirate king. 645 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,280 O-K. 646 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,560 Hell, yeah. And here I am. So... 647 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,960 AUDIENCE LAUGHS 648 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,240 No, I say it because you are a great singer and we've heard you sing 649 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:01,320 No, I say it because you are a great singer and we've heard you sing 650 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,800 and now there's this clip that has been out in the world. 651 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,440 How is it out in the world? Did the school release it or something? 652 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,080 Yeah. Yeah... So this is a school production of Phantom of the Opera? 653 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,400 Whoa! The first-ever amateur production in Ireland. 654 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,160 Were you the Phantom? I was the Phantom. Stop it! Yes.Yeah. 655 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,120 Get in! Yeah. Now, remember, this is a school production. 656 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,840 I don't know what school you went to but, uh... 657 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,040 The production values, I think, are quite high. 658 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,000 I think probably people...Yeah. ..have seen professional productions 659 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,200 not as good. So this is Paul Mescal as... 660 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,080 Oh, now, do you remember the name of the lady?Jessica Hackett. 661 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,080 Jessica Hackett, it was on the tip of my tongue. 662 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,160 I knew I knew her. Uh... 663 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,920 Paul Mescal and Jessica Hackett in Phantom Of The Opera - enjoy. 664 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,040 MUSIC PLAYS Look at this, come on, look at this! 665 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,160 Is that real fire? No, it's a like a... 666 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,000 Like a screen? Look at that mask! 667 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,040 I'm guessing that's a wig. Yes, yes. 668 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,840 HE LAUGHS Oh, I hope she doesn't faint. 669 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,680 She might faint, I hope she doesn't faint. 670 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,640 Look how long my hands are. 671 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,160 AUDIENCE LAUGHS 672 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,120 You're both feeling this... Yeah. So much. 673 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,960 Oh, no, I think she's getting a bit faint, she might go, she's... 674 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,800 Oh! 675 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,520 AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 676 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,000 It's very good. 677 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,560 AUDIENCE CHEERS 678 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,240 Urgh! But... 679 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,400 But I was wondering, so famously, Phantom Of The Opera, 680 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,760 at the end of Act 1, a chandelier comes crashing down to the stage. 681 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,640 It's supposed to come cra-, like swooping in. Yeah. 682 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,200 Big dramatic moment. Yeah. 683 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,920 But that's where the production values - 684 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,760 we'd use them all like on the, like, candles, clearly. Yes. 685 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,080 But we did have... 686 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,080 a kind of ramshackle... 687 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,000 I tell you what, I'll fast forward it. Here is, uh... 688 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,040 So talk us through this. So you went for slow motion? 689 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,400 Well, we didn't have an option because that's how... Oh, wow! 690 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,800 ..fast it moved. The stage...! 691 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,200 These stars are giving it their all. 692 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,560 Yeah. 693 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,560 Yeah. EXAGGERATEDLY SLOW: Oh, no! 694 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,920 Look at them, they're so good. 695 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,840 Best single work we have. 696 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,920 Oh... It's something. ..it's still going. 697 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,480 Yeah. Still going. 698 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:07,760 AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 699 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,160 Ooh... Wait a second, wait, wait, wait, and... 700 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,280 it's hitting the stage... 701 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,400 ..now! There you go! 702 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,480 AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS Very good. Very good. 703 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,840 It was impressive. I know, they built it in the school hall. 704 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,880 It was crazy. That was evocative and safe. Yeah. Moving! 705 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,680 Where did you shoot? It was so beautiful. 706 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:29,480 Oh, so beaut-, it was so stunning. 707 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,320 Inis Mor, uh, in the Aran Islands off Galway, 708 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,440 and then Achill Island, which is further - a little bit up. 709 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,060 And it was a combination of the two and we stayed there for... 710 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:41,560 On the island, 750 people. Heaven. Mm. 711 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,680 Three weeks and so... Fab! We'd be, you know... 712 00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:47,360 meeting each other on the road on our day off... 713 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,160 THEY LAUGH 714 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:50,600 So it merged into it, yeah. 715 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,760 But there were tourists there? Yeah, there was. 716 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,600 On any given day during the summer, 717 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,000 there could be 2,000 tourists coming in on boats and planes 718 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,440 and cycling around, renting the bicycles and horses. 719 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,120 He had a...he had a... Stop! ..an interesting kind of, uh... 720 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,400 Shut up. 721 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,120 THEY LAUGH 722 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,240 They have horse-drawn, you know, carts that they kind of carry 723 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,280 tourists around and stuff and Colin, as he likes to do, 724 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,200 went down for a jog. 725 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:16,800 I'll let you tell it. No, carry on. 726 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,200 No, I was just going for a j-... and it was a warm summer's day 727 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:21,720 and I had my shirt off, I'm jogging in me little runner shorts, 728 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,880 with a slit up here. Yeah, got you. Only a couple of inches. 729 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,360 Moving along. And, yeah, one day there was a horse and cart 730 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,720 and there were six people on the back of it and all of a sudden, 731 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,760 I noticed that they were only keeping ten feet ahead of me 732 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,480 with all their cellphones up on the video. 733 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,760 So I stopped and pretend to have a bit of a stretch 734 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,120 and touch my toes and that, 735 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,120 and they'd stop, and then I go, "For f..." 736 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,560 So I'd start running again and then they'd take off again. 737 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,040 So, for about an hour we kept about ten feet apart, 738 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,640 and then I thought, "Ah, feck this. I see a hill coming. 739 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,440 "There's no way the horse can get up that hill as fast as I can run." 740 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,080 Well, we were neck and neck for about half a mile. 741 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,840 LAUGHTER 742 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,920 We were neck and neck for about half a mile. 743 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,880 Just before we got to the centre of town...the horse... 744 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,080 ..the horse took it, the horse took it. 745 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,200 That's you guys there, that's you guys there.Thank you. 746 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:05,800 Welcome, all! Welcome, all! 747 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,680 Lovely to see you. Have you come straight from rehearsal? 748 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,920 Oh, it's exhausting! 749 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,840 Yes, we have. We have come straight from rehearsal. 750 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,920 We've got a few days left. 751 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,640 Oh, it's fun and games! 752 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,400 You haven't started yet, Ian! 753 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,200 Apart from this show, when did you last do a pantomime? 754 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:24,840 Er, in 19... 755 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,600 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE 756 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,160 Ouch! 757 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,360 It was...1990. 758 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,400 And were you...? 759 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,160 1990 in Harrogate. 760 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,680 Were you in a frock? No. No. I played...Rollo, I think. 761 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:41,520 Were you in a frock? No. No. I played...Rollo, I think. 762 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,040 Thigh boots? No, no. I think we had... 763 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,680 I think I wore... What do you call those things? Knickerbockers? 764 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:49,600 Ah. I think I had those on, yes. 765 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,840 Was that the attraction of doing the...? 766 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,040 It was a job, Ian. It was a job! 767 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,120 LAUGHTER 768 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,480 That was the attraction. 769 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,400 So, this production of Mother Goose, what makes it special? 770 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,640 It sounds like you've thrown everything at this. 771 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,960 It's got it all. 772 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,200 HE SIGHS Well... 773 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:09,600 I went to the management 774 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,920 and I said, "Before I finish, I want to play a dame once more." 775 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,880 I have played Widow Twankey in Aladdin. With great success. 776 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,800 Thank you. And as the saying goes, 777 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,800 "Once they've seen your Twankey, can a Goose be far behind?" 778 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,200 LAUGHTER 779 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,200 APPLAUSE 780 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,280 But Mother Goose is the great part for a dame, 781 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,760 because it's at the centre of the story. It is not on the adjunct. 782 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,760 It's all about a woman who is not quite happy with her lot, 783 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,800 and has her wishes granted. And... we'll see what happens. 784 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,320 And, John, who do you play? I play... 785 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,320 I play Mother Goose's husband. 786 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,080 Very good.Yes. Called what? I only... I only found... 787 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,120 I'm called Vic. Vic Goose. 788 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:08,200 And I only found out, here, in the research chat here, 789 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,840 that I am Ian's first-ever stage husband. 790 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,480 Well, now! 791 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,440 CHEERING 792 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,320 And I... 793 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,040 I'm John Bishop's first... 794 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,120 ..er...stage wife. 795 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,800 CHEERING 796 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,800 No, but the others have been women. 797 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,480 LAUGHTER 798 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,280 No, it's about our relationship, it's about... 799 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,160 It's about fame, it's about money, it's about chasing your dreams 800 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,080 and realising they're not the same. 801 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,680 And mixed in that, there's some knob gags and singing and dancing. 802 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:46,360 LAUGHTER 803 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,560 And, Mo, is it really - you were kind of performing music 804 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,120 before you ever turned to comedy? 805 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,120 Oh, yeah. Like, my dad is very musical. 806 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,520 So, like, in the show I do... I've got a show. 807 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,920 And basically we do this thing called Nursery Grimes. 808 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,840 So we get a nursery rhyme and we get a song. So, like... 809 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,120 Just classic nursery rhymes. But we do a different rendition of it. 810 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,840 Obviously, my dad is a Rastafarian, 811 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,800 so we do his Rastafarian take on it. 812 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,800 So instead of "the wheels on the bus", it's... 813 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,200 # Da wheels on da bus go around and around! # 814 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,400 It's... It's like when I do, like, comedy shows now, 815 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,880 I have it on my Netflix special. 816 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,600 So people are like, "Go on, do the rhyme," 817 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,240 cos I have it in the special. I'm like, "No, I can't just do it." 818 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,640 I'll be in Tesco and I'm like... 819 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,080 "The bags are 30p already..." LAUGHTER DROWNS WORDS 820 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,240 "Do the rhyme." I'm like, "No, I don't want to do it." 821 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,560 And before you know it, I'm... 822 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,080 # Old MacDonald, him sat on da farm... # 823 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,160 Bruce, you've been singing professionally. 824 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,240 Next year you will have been singing professionally for 50 years, 825 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,960 ladies and gentlemen. Wow!Five decades. 826 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,360 Actually... Oh, is it more? 827 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,360 Yeah, actually... 828 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,440 Actually, I've been singing for 60. 829 00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,320 LAUGHTER 830 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,120 I've been playing with my band, in a year, for 50 years. 831 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,720 50 years. Oh, THAT'S the 50, OK. 832 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,920 That's tricky. Imagine this - 833 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,200 the same people...that you went to high school with, 834 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,520 all of the same people... 835 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:15,600 That's so sweet. 836 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,360 ..for the rest of your life. 837 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,000 LAUGHTER 838 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,560 For the rest of your life you work with them every day. 839 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,880 And no-one can be replaced or changed. 840 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,120 Oh... 841 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,160 Tell me, when did... when did the thing...? 842 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,240 Your crowds do this now. They have signs with the songs 843 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,680 they want to hear. When did this start? 844 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:38,360 I don't know. 10, 15 years ago people started to... 845 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,520 It was my fault, because I started to play requests. 846 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,400 So people started to bring signs about what they wanted to hear. 847 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,840 And...to keep the band from getting too comfortable, 848 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,360 I would pull these signs out of the audience, 849 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,360 show them to the band and we would play them. You know. 850 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,760 But it's not always your songs! No, it can be anything... 851 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,880 LAUGHTER 852 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,480 The poor band is like, "My God..." 853 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,640 "Here, Bruce, do The Wheels On The Bus, mate. 854 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,200 "Do The Wheels On The Bus." 855 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:11,640 I going to tell you, I have done The Wheels On The Bus many times! 856 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:11,840 I going to tell you, I have done The Wheels On The Bus many times! 857 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,600 I have three kids, 858 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,800 and I have sung Wheels On The Bus, not with that accent, 859 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,320 but many times! 860 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,000 And tell me about... Wasn't there a man who wanted to hear Drift Away? 861 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,840 Do you know the man I'm talking about? He had a sign?I do. 862 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,600 Tell the people what the sign said. 863 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,680 It said, "I will give my left testicle to hear Drift Away." 864 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,400 To whom? 865 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,240 LAUGHTER 866 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,280 That is the question. That's a good question. That is the question. 867 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,560 I certainly didn't want to be responsible for it, 868 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,360 so we played Drift Away. 869 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,640 Now, talking of fans, you play the songs for the fans, 870 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,240 but you do seem to go above and beyond. 871 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,920 This was, I think, earlier, back in the '80s, I think. 872 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,960 Do you know the story where you were...? 873 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,480 I think you were at a cinema.Yeah. Was it in Denver? 874 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,160 St Louis. St Louis. 875 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,160 You were in the cinema in St Louis. Take it away. 876 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,640 Unless it's a different story. No... Unless it's a different story, 877 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,440 and you're thinking, "He can't want me to tell this story!" 878 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,200 I was in a cinema by myself on an off night from the tour 879 00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:14,840 in St Louis watching Woody Allen's Stardust Memories... 880 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,200 OK. 881 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:20,680 ..during which Woody Allen is not necessarily so kind to his fans 882 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:21,480 ..during which Woody Allen is not necessarily so kind to his fans 883 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,000 in the film. 884 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,000 So, I had met a kid in the lobby. 885 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,640 He was there with his girlfriend. 886 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,400 And he said, "Do you want to sit with us?" 887 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,840 So I said, "OK." 888 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:37,000 See? Already, I'm just thinking that's just a hard no. Isn't it? 889 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,440 "Do you want to sit with us?""No." "No! I don't." 890 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,920 But no, you did it. You're lovely, you went and sat... 891 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,160 So I went and I sat. And we watched the movie. 892 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,760 And he says, "Is that how you feel about your fans?" 893 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,760 So I said, "Well...not so much." 894 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,880 He says, "I'm going to go home now. 895 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,600 "Will you come home and meet my parents?" 896 00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:57,960 You didn't? 897 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,600 I said, "OK." 898 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,040 Oh, I love that. 899 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,040 And so, I went somewhere in St Louis 900 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,120 with this kid. 901 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,560 And we walked in the door. 902 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,320 And it's about 11 o'clock at night. 903 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,640 And he says, "Mom, Mom! 904 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,720 "I have Bruce Springsteen with me." 905 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,480 And she goes, "Who?" 906 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,440 No! 907 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,400 And he runs in his bedroom and he comes out with the album 908 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,680 and shows her the album cover. 909 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:31,720 He says, "Bruce Springsteen." 910 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,360 And of course, then she goes, "Oh, my God! 911 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,160 "Let me make him some eggs." 912 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,680 LAUGHTER 913 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,040 And so around midnight, I was sitting in a little house 914 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,040 in St Louis having some eggs with this kid and his mom and... 915 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,960 And I saw them for decades after that every time we came to town. 916 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:51,160 And I saw them for decades after that every time we came to town. 917 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,320 Oh! What a story! 918 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,160 APPLAUSE 919 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,520 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Bruce Springsteen! 920 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,000 CHEERING 921 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,560 Oh, yeah!